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Michael Rothschild

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Michael Rothschild · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1942, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Michael Rothschild is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Michael Rothschild is an American economist known for foundational work on economics under uncertainty and asymmetric information, especially his 1976 paper with Joseph Stiglitz on adverse selection in insurance markets and their earlier work on measuring risk and inequality. He was dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and taught at UCLA. He is included among Jewish economists in Jewish biographical references.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists